Wednesday, May 23, 2018

2018 World Cup Quick Facts

The 2018 FIFA World Cup Finals will be held June 14 to July 15, with 64 matches played at 12 venues in 11 cities -- Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Kazan, Samara, Volgograd, Nizhny Novgorod, Saransk, Rostov-on-Don, Kaliningrad, and Sochi -- with the Final Match held at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium.  2018 will mark the 21st World Cup, and the first in Russia.  Thirty-one national teams earned their spots through qualifying competitions, with Russia obtaining an automatic spot as the host nation.  Each team will be comprised of 23 players, three of whom must be goalkeepers.

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